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| Artist: Michelle Branch
Label: Maverick
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  657 reviews
Sales Rank: 2001
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 47985
UPC: 093624798521
EAN: 0093624798521
ASIN: B00005M987
Release Date: August 14, 2001
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Condition: PLEASE READ!!!!!DISC ONLY!!!!!! Has wear and scratches but plays fine!!!
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| Tracks:
| • | Everywhere | | • | You Get Me | | • | All You Wanted | | • | You Set Me Free | | • | Something To Sleep To | | • | Here With Me | | • | Sweet Misery | | • | If Only She Knew | | • | I'd Rather Be In Love | | • | Goodbye to You | | • | Drop In The Ocean |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
"So I'm a little left of center, I'm a little out of tune," sings Michelle Branch on her debut album's "You Get Me." Well, maybe. Branch offers a well-produced pastiche of chiming and strumming guitars, hip-hop-lite beats, quiet-verse-to-louder-chorus templates, and positive thinking. At her best--"If She Only Knew," a propulsive love note to an ex--she rivals the likes of Sixpence None the Richer as likable radio-aimed fare. Catchy and self-expressive while breaking absolutely no ground, Branch also echoes everyone from label-mate Alanis Morissette to the solo Belinda Carlisle. She dies just a little in this crazy mixed-up world, escapes to her secret garden for sunshine in the pouring rain, and ultimately finds her reflection getting clearer. The Spirit Room could be the next bit of pop philosophy to dazzle mainstream audiences. --Rickey Wright
Album Details
Includes Different Artwork Than USA Version and Exclusive CD Rom Section which features Behind the Scenes Footage of the Making of this CD, a Picture Gallery plus a Weblink.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 652 more reviews...
 Wonderful music May 26, 2008
Kelly (PA)
This album has such gorgeous songs on it...I listen to it over and over. The meaning and feeling in each song is wonderful. Michelle Branch has such an amazing voice and she is such a great songwriter. True talent!
One of my favorite albums April 29, 2008
L. Wilson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I first discovered Michelle Branch in high school, I quickly became obsessed, and now she is my favorite artist. She's one of the most talented female singer/songwriters out there today. She writes, sings, and plays guitar in all of her songs, but none of them are repetitive or become too mainstream pop (i.e. Avril Lavigne, Kelly Clarkson). The mark of a true artist is that they aren't afraid to collaborate in other genres, and Michelle has done just that with Santana and as half of the country duo The Wreckers. I do admit that I like her solo projects the best, though, and in many ways, I think her first album The Spirit Room is her strongest, becuase it's so raw and real and created her original sound. For me, it's a classic and one that I can listen to over and over at anytime, anywhere.
grrrrrrrrrreat! December 27, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well, i asked for this for Christmas, and i must say i am impressed. I already had Hotel Paper and loved it, but i was heisitent to get her first one. Here are the best songs.
All You Wanted
Everywhere
Here With Me
I'd Rather Be In Love
i think this CD is an A+
very impressive June 22, 2007
E. Laway (Temecula, California United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't know how old Michelle Branch was when she recoded this CD, but I am sure she's old enough to be my daughter that I would have had in my 20's. Her lyrics are ingsightful without alienating audience in her age group but retain a certain sophistication beyond her years. Imagine she wrote most the songs, co-wrote some, played the guitar and the base, and what a crystalline voice, the kind that is timeless and can transcend her listeners. It is nice to know that The Woman Song Writing tradition started by Joni Mitchel, Joan Armatrading and such will be continued, for this reason, I think Michelle Branch will be around for a while.
 This album is a breath of fresh air. No really, it is! June 12, 2007
Dri the Complex Lonely (USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's pop, that isn't OVERLY poppy. Somewhat like Vanessa Carlton. I appreciate Michelle's lyrics because they are just so true sometimes. She's a bit angsty, she's left wondering and she longs for love...in mildly interesting ways and it shows. It's just really nice to be able to truly relate to someone in the music industry. I mean it happens, but not as often as we like sometimes.
And don't get me started on John Shanks. This guy is a musical genius. He works with Michelle Branch on production and helps write five of the eleven songs on this nice full length debut. He is also responsible for the catchiness of Ashlee Simpson songs, which most of them I love.
Best songs:
All You Wanted
Goodbye To You
Drop In The Ocean (this song is amazing)
Honorable Mention:
Something To Sleep To
If you don't own any CDs by this talented singer/songwriter/guitarist/etc, etc. It would be wise to start at the beginning with The Spirit Room.
The only thing that bothered me a bit was the song titles: Maybe I'm in the minority, but some of them were just too predictable, leaving some of the songs to lack a bit of depth. I believe Michelle was rather young when she wrote some of these songs though...
Anyway, 4 stars!
P.S. My favorite line is in the song Goodbye To You. It's capitalized:
"I've been searchin' deep down in my soul/Words that I'm hearing are starting to get old/Feels like I'm starting all over again/THE LAST 3 YEARS WERE JUST PRETEND...
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